verb (used with object) Physical Chemistry.
to gather (a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance) on a surface in a condensed layer: Charcoal will adsorb gases.
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| —vb | |
| Compare absorb to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which a substance, usually a gas, accumulates on the surface of a solid forming a thin film, often only one molecule thick: to adsorb hydrogen on nickel; oxygen adsorbs on tungsten | |
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| ad'sorbable | |
| —adj | |
| adsorba'bility | |
| —n | |
| ad'sorption | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
adsorb
1882 (in adsorbing), trans. (intrans. use attested from 1919), back-formation from adsorption (1882), coined in Eng. from ad- + -sorption, abstracted from absorption (see absorb).
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adsorb ad·sorb (ād-sôrb', -zôrb')
v. ad·sorbed, ad·sorb·ing, ad·sorbs
To take up by adsorption.
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